Question

What all events can be triggered programmatically using jQuery? Also is there any important differences to be remembered when one is doing event triggering using jQuery Vs a natural way of it being triggered?

Answer 1

Every event can be programmatically fired, just use the callback-less version of it.

Example:

$('#button').click(function() { alert('event hanlder'); });

$('#button').click(); // generate the event

About your second question, there should be no difference between the native and jQuery event handlers.

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One thing that is neat though is that jQuery binds this to the element that received the event, inside the callback (this doesn’t happen in native event handlers):

$('#button').click(function() { alert(this); }); // here 'this' == document.getElementById('button');

Warning: the element referenced by this is not “jQuery augmented”. If you want to traverse or modify it with jQuery goodness you’ll have to do something like var $this = $(this);